Cathy Smith

The mainstream press shows its Zionist complicity plainly. Headlines like Israel awaits hostages and peace deal may be imminent ignore 77 years of Zionist bloodletting. The "press" writes about the genocidal deaths of ~67,000 Gazans as if "The Peace Deal" were a social lunch date.

PART 1: Jesus’ Admonitions About Harming Children

Jesus was unequivocal in his condemnation of those who harm children or cause them to sin. Here are all key passages:

Matthew 18:6–7 (NRSV)

“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!”

Jesus does not speak figuratively here. This is one of his most severe warnings, directly linking divine punishment with harming children, especially in their innocence or belief. This text forms a moral anchor point in any ethical reckoning involving child suffering.

Mark 9:42

“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.”

Luke 17:2

“It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”

Matthew 19:14

“Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these, that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”

Jesus not only protects children — he elevates them as the spiritual archetype of worthiness.

Matthew 25:40 

“‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.’”

Applied Today:

In Gaza or anywhere, to harm the innocent — especially children — is to commit a sacrilege directly against the divine in the Christian moral cosmos.

PART 2: Jesus’ Statements About the Religious Elite or “Children of the Devil”

This is one of the most controversial areas in the New Testament. It has been historically weaponized for antisemitism, which is not the purpose here. We're strictly examining what Jesus said, who he said it to, and how it relates to power, hypocrisy, and deception—particularly in comparison to modern political or religious abuses.

John 8:44 (Context: confrontation with religious leaders, idolators)

“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.

He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

This is not directed at all Jews or Israelites. Jesus is confronting a group of religious leaders (The Trump’s, Kushner’s and Natanyahu’s) likely Pharisees—who claim to be Abraham’s children but oppose his teaching and seek to kill him.

Jesus draws a sharp moral line between those who do the will of God (e.g. Abraham’s spiritual children) and those who align with deceit and murder (whom he associates with the devil). His standard is not ethnic but moral and spiritual.

Matthew 23 (Full chapter – Woes to the scribes and Pharisees)

This chapter is Jesus’ most sustained and scathing rebuke of religious leaders. Selected excerpts:

Verse 13:

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.”

Verse 15:

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”

Verse 27–28:

“You are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.”

Verse 33:

“You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?”

Verse 35 (Karmic implication):

“So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah… whom you murdered.”

Jesus accuses the religious elite of spiritual murder, deceit, and abuse of power. He says they are storing up a karmic debt of historic proportions — one that spans generations of bloodshed.

Relevance Today:

If we examine Netanyahu, the IDF, and elite Zionists who weaponize religion, nationalism, or racial narratives to justify ethnic cleansing or dispossession — they fit this moral profile:

Hypocrites who cloak violence in law,

Architects of lies and propaganda,

Men who have hardened their hearts against the cries of children.

The Gospels show Jesus did not simply oppose “sinners” or “outsiders” — he reserved his fiercest rebuke for insiders who abused authority and justified oppression in God's name.

Part 3: Empirical Data — Gaza Death Toll, 7 Oct 2023 – Oct 2025

Summary Figures (with caveats)

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH), between 7 October 2023 and 7 October 2025, 67,173 Palestinians were killed and 169,780 injured. 

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In that same MoH data, of the fatalities:

• 20,179 children (≈ 30 %) 

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• 10,427 women (≈ 16 %) 

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• 31,754 men (≈ 47 %) 

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• 4,813 elderly (≈ 7 %) 

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Among injuries, MoH says:

• 44,143 children (≈ 26 %) 

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• 23,769 women (≈ 14 %) 

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• 89,983 men (≈ 53 %) 

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• 11,885 elderly (≈ 7 %) 

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In an interim figure (MoH as of 22 March 2025), OCHA reports 50,021 killed in Gaza between 7 October 2023 and 22 March 2025. 

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Of those:

• 15,613 children (31 %) 

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• 8,304 women (17 %) 

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• 22,265 men (44 %) 

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• 3,839 elderly (8 %) 

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Other sources (media, UN, etc.) provide supplementary or overlapping estimates:

• Al Jazeera’s tracker (as of late 2025) lists 66,055 killed, including 19,424 children. 

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• The Guardian reports “over 67,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including at least 20,000 children” killed in two years. 

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• The BBC (on a verified subset) says among verified casualties, 44% were children and 26% women (i.e. ~70 % of verified victims) during a span of months. 

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• UN Women estimates that over 28,000 women and girls have been killed since October 2023. 

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Disputes, Uncertainties, and Methodological Challenges

“Identified vs total”

The UN / OCHA distinguishes between total deaths reported and those that have been fully identified (i.e. name, age, gender). In one revision, “identified” fatalities were ~24,686 out of >35,000 reported overall. 

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Some criticisms argue that using only “identified” deaths skews the proportion of women/children downward. 

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Source bias / control

The Gaza Health Ministry is under Hamas control, critics and some analysts question completeness or impartiality of its reporting, especially in contested zones.

Some pro-Israel media attempt to sharply reduce the numbers of women/children killed in identified deaths, claiming the earlier figures were exaggerated. 

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The size and density of damage, collapsed buildings, mass burials, destroyed records, and disrupted hospital systems make any casualty count inherently uncertain. How many Gazans are entombed in bulldozed rubble, the Polpot killing fields of Gaza 2023-2025?

“Civilian vs combatant” classification

None of these numbers reliably separate combatants vs non‑combatants across all reported deaths.

Underreporting

Some deaths (from lack of medical care, starvation, dehydration, disease) may not be captured as “conflict-deaths” but are part of the toll. MoH itself notes malnutrition-related deaths. 

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Bodies still under rubble or inaccessible zones may be missing from counts.

Interpretation / Juxtaposition

Given the best-available MoH data, over the two-year span:

≈ 67,173 deaths in Gaza

Of these, ~20,179 children and ~10,427 women

Therefore, women + children together account for ~46 % of the fatalities (by MoH’s breakdown)

Men remain the largest single demographic (47 %)

If one accepts those MoH numbers, the human cost among innocents (women, children) is enormous — tens of thousands of dependents, not combatants, have died.

Part 4: Israel’s Longer History of Mass Violence, Displacement, and Dispossession

To place the recent Gaza conflict in a broader moral-historical frame, we must see it as part of a long continuum of policies and practices of dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and militarized domination. Below are significant episodes and structural patterns in the Zionist / Israeli project that suggest a trajectory of accumulating moral debt.

4.1 The Nakba, 1947–1949: Foundational Catastrophe

The term Nakba (Arabic, “catastrophe”) denotes the mass displacement, destruction of villages, and dispossession of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of Israel. 

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It is estimated that ~700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes. 

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Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated, razed, or reconstituted as Jewish towns or Israeli infrastructure. 

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Examples of massacres or violent expulsions in 1948 include:

Deir Yassin (9 April 1948): between ~100–140 Palestinians (including women, children, elderly) were killed by Irgun / Lehi militias (with some collaboration or acquiescence of Haganah) in an attack on a village near Jerusalem. 

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Balad al‑Sheikh (31 Dec 1947–1 Jan 1948): ~60–70 Arab villagers killed by Haganah in a raid. 

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Abu Shusha (13–14 May 1948): 60–70+ civilians killed by Givati Brigade. 

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Other instances: Operation Dani (Lydda / Ramla) in July 1948, which included mass expulsions and reported killings inside mosques and forced “death marches” of civilians. 

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The expulsions were not just wartime chaos but involved planning: many historians argue that Zionist leadership (e.g. via “Plan Dalet”) viewed displacement as part of securing Jewish demographic control and territorial consolidation. 

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After the war, Israel prevented many internally displaced Palestinians (who remained within 1948 borders) from returning to their homes and passed laws to expropriate “absentee” lands. 

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Thus, the birth of the state was not simply a war of independence, but an inversion of justice for the indigenous population: a systemic uprooting, massacre, and territorial clearing.

4.2 Post‑1948 Period: Consolidation, Dispossession, and Structural Violence

After 1948, the patterns of dispossession did not recede; they evolved.

Property expropriation and denial of return

Israel enacted legislation (e.g. the Absentees’ Property Law) that transferred immovable assets from displaced Palestinians to state or Jewish ownership.

Palestinian refugees who wished to return were barred by Israeli law and military orders.

Many villages were erased from maps; former Palestinian homes were retooled for new Jewish immigrants or municipal expansion.

Periodic military operations and massacres

Khan Yunis massacre (1956): During the Suez Crisis, Israeli forces in Gaza allegedly killed ~275+ Palestinians in house-to-house operations in Khan Yunis and Rafah. 

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Qibya massacre (1953): In the West Bank (then under Jordanian control), a raid by Israeli forces and paramilitaries destroyed homes and reportedly killed ~69 people (men, women, children) in Qibya. (Note: though not mentioned above, this is a well-documented case in scholarship on Israel’s early border raids.)

Ongoing raids, reprisals, and military incursions into the West Bank, Gaza, and border zones over decades.

Occupation of 1967 – The expansion of control

In the Six-Day War (1967), Israel seized the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and Sinai.

The occupation regime introduced settlement building, land appropriation, military control, checkpoints, travel restrictions, and permit regimes.

Settlement expansion has gradually colonized large tracts of Palestinian land in the West Bank, often displacing or marginalizing Palestinian communities.

Home demolitions and displacement in the West Bank / East Jerusalem

Between 2009 and 2022, Israeli authorities demolished ~8,413 Palestinian-owned structures, displacing at least ~12,491 people. 

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In present times, Israel’s military operations in the occupied West Bank (Jenin, Tulkarem, etc.) have forcibly displaced tens of thousands by destroying homes and infrastructure. 

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Amnesty International reports that recent operations in Jenin, Tulkarem have caused the “largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.” 

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Settler violence and “creeping dispossession”

Israeli settlers, often with tacit or explicit state backing, engage in violence, harassment, land grabbing, road blockades, attacks on property, olive groves, and intimidation of Palestinian villagers, contributing to “voluntary” displacement. 

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UN reports that since 2022, more than 1,100 Palestinians have been displaced due to settler violence in the West Bank. 

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Siege, blockade, and recurrent assaults on Gaza

Even before 2023, Gaza has lived under blockade (land, sea, air) and recurrent military operations (2008–09, 2012, 2014, 2021) that inflicted mass destruction, civilian deaths, infrastructural collapse, and forced displacement.

The logic of punishing the civilian population, targeting infrastructure (power plants, water, health), and rendering large areas uninhabitable is a continuous thread into the present.

4.3 Patterns, Structures, and Moral Trajectories

From these episodes, certain structural features emerge consistently:

Demographic engineering: The goal is not merely military victory but shaping who remains (or can return) — altering demographics toward Jewish majorities.

Territorial consolidation via erasure: Villages and names are erased; maps are redrawn to exclude Palestinian presence.

Militarism as governance: Civilian life is regulated by checkpoints, curfews, permit systems, and force.

Impunity and narrative control: Israel often rejects or downplays allegations of wrongdoing, controls how history is taught, and pressures or punishes dissent.

Ethnic exclusivism: Laws, citizenship, land rights, and state ideology give primacy to Jewish identity over native Palestinian rights.

In other words: what we see in Gaza’s recent suffering is not an aberration but an intensification of a foundational regime of settler-colonial violence.

Part 5: Karmic Justice and Reckoning — What Becomes of Blood‑Built Kingdoms?

“Woe to you who build your houses with unrighteousness and your upper rooms with injustice,

who make your neighbors serve you for nothing, and do not give them their wages…”

— Jeremiah 22:13

 

“Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”

— Galatians 6:7

 

“Even if it takes a thousand lifetimes, no act goes unanswered. The universe remembers.”

— Bhagavad Gita, echoing karma’s eternal law

I. A Desert Turned Into a Mass Grave

From October 7, 2023, to October 11, 2025, the world watched as over 67,000 Palestinians — men, women, and especially children — were killed in Gaza.

The rubble did not stop smoldering before plans emerged for a new Gaza. Not for its people. But for its conquerors.

Proposed coastal developments—marinas, luxury resorts, gated villa compounds, beachfront towers, high-end shopping—have been publicly floated by pro-Israel elites, donors, and planners close to the Netanyahu government and Kushner business orbit.

What are they building?

A fantasy of paradise on top of mass graves.

A future of profits and prestige erected atop the bones of children.

A luxury beachfront enclave where once stood overcrowded refugee camps, schools, bakeries, clinics.

This is not metaphor. It is proposed real estate development—on land cleansed by war.

II. Karma Knows No Peace for the Unjust

Karma is not poetic justice. It is cosmic accounting. And the ledgers are written not in history books, but in the hidden laws of balance that undergird the universe.

What is the karma of burying tens of thousands of civilians under bombs—and then building beachfront condos where their children once played?

What is the karmic price of silence, of wealth built on screams, of celebratory ribbon-cuttings while the soil still weeps?

What does the soul of Jared Kushner owe, who reportedly discussed Gaza’s post-war “opportunities” as real estate—not as ruin, not as remorse, but as raw material for luxury?

What becomes of Ivanka Trump, who publicly defended the Abraham Accords while her husband courted Gulf investors to pour money into deals that require Gaza's annihilation?

What cosmic balance awaits Donald Trump, who enabled the territorial and ideological ambitions of Zionism while laundering it through “peace”?

What karma stalks Netanyahu, whose legacy is a trail of craters and children’s blood, whose ambition has crossed every line the ancient prophets once warned kings never to cross?

III. The Prophets Warned of This

Ancient spiritual traditions—Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, even indigenous cosmologies—agree on this:

Blood cries out.

Injustice does not sleep.

And what is stolen must be repaid.

The Hebrew Bible is filled with judgments against kings who enriched themselves through violence.

Jesus condemned the religious elite of his day for spilling innocent blood and claiming holiness.

Eastern wisdom teaches that harm done to the innocent returns to the soul in the form of rebirth in suffering or generational degradation.

The Quran warns of a Day when “no soul shall bear the burden of another—but every burden will return to its bearer.”

IV. Gaza as a Spiritual Battlefield

What does it mean to build towers of wealth on the ashes of the voiceless?

What does it mean when the value of beachfront property is spoken of in the same breath as the mass burial of children?

This is not merely a geopolitical crime. It is a sacrilege.

A theft of both land and meaning.

A violation not only of treaties or borders, but of the spiritual order that says:

You shall not kill the innocent.

You shall not profit from murder.

You shall not call ruin "development."

V. A Spiritual Question: What Kind of Reckoning Awaits Them?

If there is any justice in the universe—

If the ancient truths hold—

If karma, or divine law, or cosmic balance exists—

Then this question echoes through realms unseen:

What becomes of those who turn slaughter into equity?

What becomes of those who build luxury atop blood?

What becomes of those whose names are written not in stone, but in dust, blood, and fire?

Will towers rise—only to fall?

Will dynasties flourish—only to rot from within?

Will names like Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu be remembered as saviors—or as those who gambled with the wrath of heaven?

The world may forget.

But the soul does not.

And the universe remembers.

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.

who put darkness for light and light for darkness.”

— Isaiah 5:20

I. Black is White and Day Turned Night 

1. Donald Trump

In The Washington Post article (Feb 2025) about Trump’s Gaza redevelopment idea:

“Basically the United States would view it as a real estate transaction where we’ll be an investor in that part of the world.” 

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He also said:

“I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up.” 

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In a follow-up, Trump vowed:

“This could be so magnificent … the Riviera of the Middle East.” 

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These remarks reduce Gaza to an asset, to be cleaned and redeveloped, rather than a living society of people with rights.

2. Jared Kushner

In a Harvard/Middle East Initiative interview (Feb 15):

“Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods.” 

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“It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up.” 

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In the same interview, regarding returning Palestinians:

“But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.” 

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However, also:

“Maybe, but I’m not sure there’s much left of Gaza at this point.” 

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These statements are chilling: Kushner speculates on real-estate value, displaces people, and openly weighs whether there is “much left” to rebuild.

Politico cited:

“From Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up.” 

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Business Insider noted:

“Gaza is being turned to rubble — and Jared Kushner thinks its waterfront is a ‘very valuable’ real-estate prospect.” 

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3. Ivanka Trump

Ivanka Trump discussing Gaza redevelopment or property in Gaza, in her public statements after recent deals she has praised her father and husband’s leadership vis-à-vis Israel and the region. For example:

“I want to thank my father … for his unbending leadership in bringing real hope for lasting peace … Deeply proud of my husband Jared Kushner … whose vision and perseverance remind us that … progress is possible.” 

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Her language is supportive and symbolic; but she frames the peace process as “opportunity, vision, progress” — consistent rhetoric in a scheme of redevelopment and transformation.

II. Reading Between the Lines: “Peace” as Land Grab

Taken together, these statements suggest a blueprint:

Decouple people from land — “move the people out and clean it up.”

Kushner’s language is explicit: the people are obstacles to redevelopment; their removal is part of the plan.

Finance and development logic — “waterfront property … very valuable,” “real estate transaction,” “Riviera of the Middle East.”

This is profit framing. It treats Gaza as a blank canvas for luxury, not an inhabited territory.

Ambiguity of return / permanence — Kushner: “I don’t think Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back …” but “maybe … I’m not sure there’s much left.”

 

That ambiguity is a tactic. It gives rhetorical flexibility to deny permanent expulsion while tacitly enabling it.

Euphemism of “cleanup”

“Clean up” is a sanitized term for ethnic cleansing erasure and selective redevelopment. The people are not “rebuilt” but removed.

Trump’s investor posture

By casting U.S. involvement as “investor,” Trump frames the U.S. role not as protector or guarantor of rights, but as a developer. That shifts the moral terrain.

Collateral silence

Note that in these remarks, there is little to no acknowledgment of the 67,000+ dead, the suffering, the trauma of uprooted lives. The human cost is subtracted, minimized, or bracketed. It is as if the dead are already debris.

Thus, their own words show “peace” is not a mutual reconciliation but a transformation of land ownership and control. The violence and displacement serve as clearing mechanisms for capital and architecture.